Over 2,000 Mail in my Inbox. Will This Slow Me?

I have 2,200 mail in my inbox and am wondering if in anyway this will significantly slow down my macbook.

Not likely to slow anything down, although size of messages can be more important than number of messages.
While I recommend moving messages to other On My Mac mailboxes in some logical structure (date range for example), I have over 14,000 messages in the Inbox for one of my accounts, and it is working not only on my Mac Pro, but also on an old QS G4.
However, size is another matter. If because of large attachments, any one mailbox were approaching 2 GB in size in Mail 2.x, then it is time to distribute the messages to other mailboxes, or delete some.
Ernie

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